Infanta Tapa dura - 1995

Takarajima Books, 1995. 1st. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good. Book is in excellent clean condition. DJ has a little shelf wear and rubbing.

Hardback. Very Good.

Takarajimasha Inc, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x0x12. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. 4to. 119pp.

Takarajima Books, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 119 pages. The female nude has long been an important subject for photographer Gibson, but in earlier books, his nudes appeared as elements in sequences of all kinds of images. With Infanta, Gibson abandons the sequencing, presenting instead a collection of big, rather simplified black-and-white images. Like Lee Friedlander in his Nudes (1991), in middle age Gibson expresses an intense fascination with the bodies of young women. Whereas Friedlander used the camera to awkwardly describe specific details, Gibson uses his to idealize beautiful body fragments. Gibson's high-contrast, grainy printing style and abstract compositions have hardly changed in two decades. Alexandra Anderson-Spivy's accompanying essay perceptively responds to Gibson's work, but Mary Gaitskill's vulgar afterword (the memoir of a stripper) seems jarringly inappropriate to the idealism of the photographs. Record # 362512

New York: Takarajima Books, 1995. 1st . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Gibson, Ralph (photos). 119pp.; HB blk.w/silver; slight rub w/dent,bttm.edge; lt.stain,foredge; clean,tight pgs. DJ gray&blk.w/white-photocover; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; 2"tear,bttm.edge. "The 115 images, produced betweeen 1988 and 1994 honor the ineluctable mystique of women's bodies as depicted by Velazquez and Manet while reflecting Gibson's current aesthetic concerns." isbn 188348913X

National Book Network, 0000-00-00. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

New York: Takarajima Books, 1995. First Takarajima edition / First printing. Black boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

mint oversize pb, expedited and international shipping not available

Takarajima Books, Inc, 1995. hardcover. Very Good. 1x1x1. Gibson signed title page 1995 Takarajima in as new condition. Unclipped jacket now in mylar shows faded area to front panel. oversized and overweight. D25 Please email for photos.